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Volume VII, Number 1.
Navy Wins
At Poughkeepsie
I T HAD been figured
out by the dopesters that the race
this year was between the two West­ern
boats, California and Washington.
All the Eastern boats were to go a­long
just for the ride. But something
went wrong there for the Navy took
the lead at the halfway mark and
then was never headed.
Buck Walsh, Navy's crew
coach at the Naval Academy, fell a
day before the big race and so in­jured
his spine that he was confined to
the hospital. The entire Navy crew
visited their coach at his bedside and
vowed that they would bring the ba­con
home if it killed everyone of them.
Well, they did it. Not conceded an
outside chance they rowed the race of
their lives and crossed the finish line
ten feet ahead of California. Wash­ington
finished a bare third.
The race was a fast one.
A course record was established by
Navy whicp will undoubtedly stand
for a long time.
The old avy Fight car ·
ried her sons to another victory. We
feel proud to be able to say th., at we
are a part of that Navy.
Nice Work Navy!
( From the San Fran. Cronicle.)
" THE boys of the U. S. S.
Houston, anchored off Mare Island,
are after me good and proper for
writing that Navy didn't do so much
( Continued on Page 2.)
Mare Island Navy Yard
Fourth of July Approaches
MONDAY is the Fourth.
Firecrackers, brass bands, lemon­ade,
soda pop, picnics, baseball
games, and foot races are the or­der
of the day.
THE Houston finds it­self
this year spending the 4th in
the Navy Yard. Last year we had
the good fortune to be the guest
of Astoria, Oregon. They showed
us a great time. In Vallejo we have
most of our families with us. If
there is any celebrating done we
almost always like to have those
who are closest to us around.
On the 4th many acci­dents
will occur- mostly automo­bile
crashes. Firecrackers will start
fires and probably injure some
chidren- no sailors, of course. We
hope none of our complement will
be casualties on this day.
Changes
In Officer Personnel
Sr CE the 28th of
May there have been twelve changes
of officer personnel. Ensign Quacken­bush
started it by leaving for a de­stroyer.
On the 31st he was followed
by Ensign A. V. Ely who went to
Pensacola. Among the aviators Lieut.
( jg) A. G. Dibrell and Lieut. ( jg) P. E.
Emrick were detached on the sixth
and seventh of June respectively.
Lieut. ( jg) W. C. Jonson arrived on
the sixth to fill the vacancy and on the
11th, Lieut. ( jg) F. M. Slater arrived.
( Continued on Page 4.)
1 July, 1938.
Early Flags
Show Originality
BEFORE the revolu­tion
against England, the colonists
flew the British Union Jack as their
flag. It was a similiar flag to the pres­ent
" red ensign" of the British Mer­chant
Marine but had a colonial de­sign
added to it.
During the conflict the
Continental Army flew four main flags
of varying design. The Bedford flag
consisted of a mailed arm with a short
sword with this motto " vince aut
morire" on a scroll. Oddly enough this
flag was designed by the British for
their use.
A second flag almost i­dentical
to the present flag of the
state of Connecticut was first used at
Prospect Hill near Boston.
The Philadelphia Light
Horse Troop flag was of yellow silk
40 inches by 30 inches with the letters
L. H. worked in the elaborate shielf
and rosette arrangement. Below the
pattern was a motto scroll. ' Ihis flag
first symbolized the thirteen colonies
by 13 blue and silver stripes in the
upper left corner.
The flag with seven red
and six white stripes and the crosses
of St. Andrew and St. George in the
blue field of the canton was used
both by the Army and the Navy.
There were many other
flags used for short periods of a very
revolutionary composition or emble­matic
of the patriotic fervor of the
bearers but the above were the four
most universally used.
( Continued on Page 4.)